TarLan Design-Build, LLC Big Lot Big Developments for South Slope

333 14th Street/ 346 13th Street  

South Slope New Construction: The architect of record, Saverio Tarantino of TarLan Design-Build LLC has approved plans for a four story multifamily for 14th Street and three, three-story single family homes planned for 13th Street.

Big Lot, Big Developments.  Demolition complete.  This lot is 50 feet by 200 feet. View from 14th Street looking towards 13th Street

This is the "before" 13th Street side of the lot where three single family homes are planned.  Not sure how the developer decided on which side of the lot to put the single family homes and which side gets the multifamily but the 13th Street medical office building next door has got to be the ugliest building in all of the South Slope.  14th Street is by far the more handsome street if you have to choose.

The "before" photo of the now demolished day care center.  333 14th Street will be developed as a multifamily with off street parking for some 44 automobiles. 

The beautiful brick building on the right belongs to Verizon.  I think it's part of their network grid. The roof is covered in cell phone tower equipment.

Robotic Parking Facilities to be located in the cellar under the 14th Street multifamily.

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Neighborhood map. Site in Pink

$outh $lope: Looking Good Wood

Sixteenth Street woody get a major face lift.  New windows, new roof, new door, new everything back down to the bones.   T & A Contracting did the work.  Their company should be very familiar to old house restorarians as their handy work is all over Park Slope South and Green Wood Heights.  Here are some process photos for those voyeurs who enjoy seeing a bride stripped bare.

As money pours into the neighborhood and prices skyrocket ($2 million for total gut jobs)  it pleases my little heart to see these old wood frames restored rather than torn down and replaced with F.A.R. fuckers. Especially vulnerable, anything with over twenty feet of street front like this one.

This house has a museum quality slate fireplace with the original faux finished marble effect and the incised gold leaf.  Almost every fireplace I've ever seen lost their finishes during paint stripping and now have the common flat grey green slate look, however nice in its own way, was not the original intention of the builder 100+ years ago.

At dusk the new sunny paint job glows.

They used cement based hardi board planks insted of wood.

337 11th Street: Metastasis in Progress

Already reduced to a shell of its former glory, prognosis is poor for this two story row house at 337 11th Street just above Fifth Avenue.  Falling within the Avenue's F.A.R. boosting commercial overlay, experts are predicting permittted tumor growth to reach SIXTY FEET in the air by Spring 2017. 

The neighboring property owners have abandoned ship selling recently for a rumored $1.6 million.  I believe it was advertised as a total  gut job. No records up yet on Acris so can't tell you whether it will stay seperate or be consumed by the tumor next door

11  Job Description
	PROPOSED ALTERATION TYPE I FOR VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ENLARGEMENT OF EXISTING THREE (3) STORY AND CELLAR THREE (3) FAMILY (HCA) MULTIPLE DWELLING AND CONVERSION INTO TWO (2) FAMILY DWELLING

Purchaced in 2012 for $950,000 337 11th Street will be engorging an additional two stories (actually something like 27 feet with permitted obstructions and bulkheads) and adding 3,400 more feet of living space.  Plans call for one enclosed parking space.

11  Job Description

PROPOSED ALTERATION TYPE I FOR VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL ENLARGEMENT OF EXISTING THREE (3) STORY AND CELLAR THREE (3) FAMILY (HCA) MULTIPLE DWELLING AND CONVERSION INTO TWO (2) FAMILY DWELLING

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New Construction: OPerA-tic on 16th $treet

The architects over at OPerA Studio have completely transformed 297 16th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) without destroying the street's diminutive architectural scale.  Unfortunately the Buildings Department has dropped a SWO bomb on the job site for demolishing a garage without a permit.  Hefty fines for that as well as failure to give notice of excavation prior to starting the dig. For bearings, that's 297 on the left and the recently gut reno'ed 299 on the right.  We profiled 299 16th Street back in 2012 where you can see more archival before and after photos.

2011:  A mundane "before" photo lifted from one of our favorite Brooklyn photoblogs Street-Level-NYC.   297 seen here wrapped in asphalt shingles was briefly clad in aluminum siding right before it was put on the market in an effort to boost its curb appeal or possibly/probaly to cure an ECB/Buildings violation for a rotting facade.  It worked, as the property eventually sold for $1.2million to current owners.  

According to OPerA's web site they altered and expanded the old building's exterior by creating a new foundation and enveloping the side and rear facades with masory before demolishing the old structure.  Looks like the construction fence is almost ready to be taken down. I think the exterior wood siding will remain natural in color which i think looks pretty, pretty, good juxtaposed to the black glazed brick on the side extentsion.  

From the Architects website

The narrow alley way between both buildings gets walled.  I believe 299 lost all her side windows which must have been tuff to swallow after just finishing $$$ renovating.  The perils of lotline windows....sad emoji face here.  

Definately not your grandma's South Slope!  Architect's drawing for 297 16th Street lifted from their web page defies belief.

That sure is a lot of stairs to scale at the end of the day.

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